Improvement in handles for crosscut-saws



W. CLEMSON.

Improvement in Handles for Cross-Cut Saws.

No. 130,018, j PatentedJuIyBO, 1872.

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. WILLIAM CLEMSON, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,018, dated July 30, 1872.

' 1, WILLIAM GLEMsoN, of Middletown, in

the county of Orange, in the State of New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Handles for Orosscut- Saws, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to cheapen the mode of attaching handles to crosscutsaws, and thereby obviate the necessity for using metal ferrules on wooden handles; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts, whereby the result is obtained, as will hereinafter be more fully set forth.

.I igure 1 represents a view of the handle from the saw side; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; and Fig. 3, a plan view of same on line w as in Fig. 2.

A represents a portion of a saw-blade, to which the-handle is attached. a a are holes at each end of the saw-blade, as made by the saw-manufacturer, to rivet the common thimble or sockets to receive the lower end of a handle, but in this case are not used for that purpose. B is a wooden handle turned at its lower end, B, to be larger than at the main body, and has a vertical V-shaped groove, 1),

A. b b are two metal pins driven in'holes in the enlarged part B of the handle, and filed or cut tocorrespond with the sides of the V- shaped groove, and are for the purpose of having the end of the saw abut against them and prevent the same from wearing into the wood of the,handle. AG is a hook screw-bolt, the screw-end of which goes transversely through the enlarged part of the handle, as seen in Figs.

' 2 and 3, and receives the thumb-nut D, while the hook-end 0 extends a sufficient distance I from thehandle to go through and hook into one of the holes a in the saw-plate, as seen in Fig. 3. When the several parts are thus constructed and the hook screw-bolt put through the handle, and the nut D turned on, the hook 0 put through hole a in the saw-blade, the thumb-nut D is then turned hard against the washer d and handle B, and thereby drawing the end of the saw-bladeA firmly against the handle and pins 12, and the handle is firmly and securely attached to the saw-blade. This construction saves the expense of and does away with a costly ferrule with a projection and groove therein on one side thereof to receive and hold the end of the saw-blade, as the two pins 1) in the groove b afl'ord just as good and secure a bearing for the end of the saw as would the metal ferrule with the groove therein.

I am aware that a hook screw-bolt and nut have beenused to attach a handle to a saw; but in such case there was a metal ferrule having a bearing-groove therein for the reception of the end of the saw-plate, while in this no such ferrule is used. I am also aware of patent No. 73,516, dated January 21, 1868, and

disclaim the construction therein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination of the wooden handle B, having groove b and pins 1) b therein, and hook screw-bolt passing through it, with the saw-plate A, constructed and arranged to operate in the manner described.

' WM. CLEMSON.

Witnesses CHAS. I. HUMPHREY, ELIsHA P. WHEELER. 

